Gasparini's song "Good For You" was featured in the NBC musical series "Smash", sung by series star Katharine McPhee in the second season episode "The Dramaturg".
In 1996, there was debate based on the question of the extent to which a dramaturg can claim ownership of a production, such as the case of Jonathan Larson, the author of the musical Rent and Lynn Thomson, the dramaturg on the production.
The NEW PLAYS FROM EUROPE 2012 team of artistic directors consists of: Manfred Beilharz, artistic director of Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, the author Tankred Dorst, one of the most internationally renowned and most frequently staged German playwrights (distinguished with awards such as the Büchner Prize and the Schiller Memorial Prize), his co-author Ursula Ehler and the dramaturg Maya Schöffel, who has served as festival organizational director since 2007.